They will both be the same estimate from the same source as you!.

The only way of finding out if you can get better is for you or one of the other houses with the lower estimate actually get FTTC.

If you can track the wires back to the cab you may see if the distance is much more for your side of the road than the other side, but it can be hard to find out where they cross the road.

Estimates seem to be for each DP and until a customer on a DP is actually provided the system will not be able to correct it's accuracy. Once the first customer is working the system should 'refresh' to give a better indication of what is actually given. ( It may not improve but can improve significantly).

There are instances where the first customer has conditions within their premises ( e.g bad wiring) that make the first system correction go low, this will then correct again when others work at a better speed.

In other words take the plunge and see what happens lol... I think i will contact sky and try to arrange something whereby if i do not get a good mbps through fibre i can revert back to standard, i shall see what they say lol

Ant

It would be interesting to know the outcome if you do decide to take the plunge. One thing you can be sure of is that your upload speed will increase significantly.

The trouble is Sky will almost certainly keep you to contract if it meets their estimates.

So was on the phone to SKY about to do it.. theres a 14day cancellation period so that would have been fine...then they stated i would have to pay £50 installation so i didnt bother...didnt see the point in paying £50 for something that may not work and then i would cancel

Yes that's because its a Sky LLU number and openreach has no visibility of where it is located

Might just have to bite the bullet and wait till virgin cover my street they cover every other one around me

You have all been helpful so far..so here goes.. i have a brown telewest box connected to front of my house which leads into a white box inside with tv and fm out? Does this mean i should be able to receive fibre from virgin?

Looks likely what does http://www.virginmedia.com say when you do a postcode check and subsequently select an address?

It states that Virgin media is not available for me currently. Yet on the telephone i was told number 71 in my street has it which is 6 doors down from me. I also have an old Telewest brown box connected to my house, which i presume used to have cable, it still comes into my house ?